TY - JOUR T1 - On an Integral Approach for Searching XML Documents in a Collaborative Environment AU - , Dr. Jinan A.W. Fiaidhi AU - , Dr. Sabah M.A. Mohammed AU - , Lei Yang JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 56 EP - 68 PY - 2004 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2004.56.68 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2004.56.68 KW - AB - The goal of searching XML documents is to identify XML documents which best match users information needs. At first glance, this seems very simple because XML structure resembles a database. Hence, searching is merely to identify XML documents which contain the tags and words which are also contained in the user`s query. However, this is not completely true without having a collaborative ontology, a query expansion mechanism and query relaxation techniques. This article highlights those issues and presents an integral approach for searching XML documents. A Java-based software prototype for the integral approach is built within a collaborative environment to demonstrate the validity of the approach. ER -